This project was launched in UIA's 100th year in tribute to Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, the co-founders of the UIA. They were both pioneers in seeking international dialogue, and devoted peace activists.

In the summer of 2004, the UIA partnered with the Europhil Trust to edit, publish and host its Civil Society Glossary.

Europhil is a UK charity, registered on 21 July 1986 in London as European affiliate of International Standing Conference on Philanthropy (INTERPHIL). Europhil aims to promote research on the law and practice of member states relating to non-governmental agencies for the public benefit in and for Europe, i.e. European philanthropy.

In 2003, the Union of International Associations decided to award a Doctoral These Prize in the sum of € 6,000, in order to stress the importance of the associative phenomenon in what was rapidly becoming a worldwide society.

One of the requirements was the the these needed to be prepared on a subject concerning the life, operations or work of international non-governmental organizations seen as components of the international civil society.

Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL) is an international information network to support public access to health and the environment information. The vision of IHEAL is to create a global network of independent community monitors who share scientifically qualified information over the Internet with environmental health activists, information technology professionals and members of the public.

A project begun under the aegis of the INFO2000 programme of the European Commission (Directorate General XIII)

The INFO2000 project – called Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation - has been subject to feasibility testing in 1997 ("Definition Phase") and is now supported in its "Implementation Phase" by the European Union and four European NGO partners ("the Consortium").

This project was a proposal to the European Commission DG Information Society for a Demonstration Project in the framework of the eContent programme, Action Line 1: Improving access to and use of public sector information Subline 1.1: Cross-border information services based on public sector information.